The long and winding road

If there is one question that always seems to elicit the same answer from buyers it is "how did you get into the profession?"

And the answer?

"Well, I just sort of fell into it really."

Now it might be that it takes a certain kind of personality to be a buyer, and those types of people just seem to gravitate towards the job. Or as someone put it a little more unkindly last month, "Most of us are just here by default".

Perhaps you could recount how you got into the profession, and some remedies to make purchasing a more attractive career.